how long is the run? how much heat do the components generate? whats your maximum ambient temperature at the cabinet intake? I would skip pc fans and go more industrial, http://www.4hydroponics.com/growroom/items.asp?ItemNo=ductBooster8 Yep, if it's far enough away and you just want air you can hav...

Have you considered any sound dampening foam? And if you're cutting 120mm holes you could use like... Thermalright TY-140s or Noctua P14s which both mount to 120mm screw points.

My DirecTV DVR makes too much noise. It's constantly accessing the hard drive. I need to find an external eSATA case and a quiet hard drive to use with my DVR. It has to be as quiet as possible. Any recommendations? All those DVR/PVR boxes have the hard drives mounted directly in the chassis and it...

Can you fellows give me some recommendations on 12v 120mm or 140mm fans to be used at the end of a long run of 8 inch HVAC ducting? The ducting will be running from the top of an enclosed home theater equipment cabinet and I will install multiple fans at the end of the run to pull hot air out of th...

I have an Ultra LSP550 550w PSU with a bottom mounted 135mm fan and a rubber gasket at the mounts. I'd like to mod it with a quiet fan but have some concerns about whether a silent fan would provide enough cooling. There's plenty of space in my full ATX to run a duct to the front of the case if fre...

Don't go for a P183 when the is P280 available. Personally I'd go with either the P280 or R3. I chose the R3 for the moduvents, since I'd have to spend more time/resources to close off the exhaust vents on the P280. With the R3 I can leave them as is and be in great shape for noise. I'd say R3 for ...

DIdn't know that it was possible. ;) I thought that if Mike went through the trouble of using wire to tie the fans to the heatsinks, simply using the stock clips must not work for some reason. I'll try that then, thanks! They look like this, so they'll work with split style fan edges, not the strai...

Why can't you just use Nexus fans and use the Noctua fan clips the NH-D14 comes with?

I intend to re-build my audio/video workstation soon, in order to improve airflow and noise levels. I want the case to be as silent as possible, while still providing sufficient airflow for moderate OC of the CPU and for my nVidia card (at stock speed). I need some advice on which case to get, as I...

You said you're using stock fans, if I remember that Lian Li has an exhaust fan and you've mounted your NH-D14 to blow air away from the 120mm exhaust. You're probably creating some air turbulence back there. Set up the NH-D14 to exhaust towards the 120mm exhaust and see how noise is, temps may also...

I had a Mugen 2 on my Asus P6T and I had no ram issues. Ripjaw X dimms here too, I did however have to raise the fan up a few cm but no big deal.

Thanks for the feedback guys! Like I said, Eyefinity is pretty much a no-go for me on this one. After calling AMD, they confirmed that a 2x, 1 extendted configuration is not supported by the current slate of Eyefinity cards (like I said, two monitors, one on top of the other, in landscape; the othe...

Hello, I have a small case acer X1900 series, which is similar to this model , but with the following specs: Intel Pentium Duo Core E6500 2.93Ghz (TDP=65w) ATi Radeon HD5450 DDR3 512MB( later upgraded to HD5570 DDR3 1GB) 4GB DDR3 1066mhz HDD 512GB The PSU is 220W. I'm considering buying Sapphire HD...

I thought I'd give you all a review of the HC01-TC hard drive cooler/enclosure, which I just installed in my computer yesterday. :D I didn't take any pictures, so here: http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/cooling/ram-and-hard-drive/201/arctic-hc01-tc.html?c=2311 The cooler is a very simple and straight forwa...

Came across the Raspberry Pi the other day. Find it intriguing, especially as my early computing experiences include soldering together my very own Sinclair ZX80. Not out yet so this is all theoretical, but already started trying to re-prioritise my computing requirements: perhaps use the Raspberry...

PhilW wrote:http://youtu.be/qOkRxqPNfSo
Dynamic overclocking and fan speed control to minimize noise.

Phil

Looks fantastic man and the temps are superb. How loud is it on idle with the 360rad, 240rad and fans?

I'm thinking about repurposing an old PC for light HTPC use (web browsing, Hulu, possible MKV etc.. video files, no gaming) while spending the least $'s possible. It has an Athlon x2 2800+ CPU and an AGP video card slot. Seems like the latest gen GPU you can get in AGP is the HD4650/70 with the HD4...

Oh well I ended up removing the fans from the accelero twin turbo ii and strapping 2 120mm scythe slipstream 800rpm fans onto it instead. I then undervolted the fans to 7v, so they should run with 470rpm. The result? furmark maxes out at just velow 80 degrees. And I have a little bit of trouble hea...

Seems pretty odd...unless aero is pushing it into 3D mode. - Does it also happen when you lower the resolution of the 1920x1200 monitor to the 1600x equivalent? - Have you tried running just the 1920x1200 monitor solo to see what happens? - have you tried disabling transparency in aero and see if t...

http://www.silentpcreview.com/raidmax-viper Thanks for the review, but as with almost all Raidmax products they're simply terrible. For the same price range you can get a Bitfenix Outlaw that offers a neat motherboard mount and way more space and class. Why would anyone consider this Raidmax at all?

I have a fanless Asus EAH3650 (ATI HD 3650) video card that has been powering two 1680x1050 monitors on my workstation (Q9650, X48, 8GB RAM, P182 case, Vista 64-bit) for the past 3 years. I recently upgraded one of the monitors to a 1920x1200 model. Since then, I've noticed a slight lag when typing...

The grommets are the only shortcoming that I'd take into consideration. Antec's thick silicon grommets are the best there are. I've read instances where people have taken Antec grommets from cases and put into other drive sleds like Fractal Design's. The gromets used by Fractal Design are good for ...

any specific reason you went with the fan on the bottom and not on top? also what is that monster shield on your mother board? cheers.. I went with fans at the front and bottom because the front has a sound dampened door (to block noise escaping) and the bottom is also to stop noise getting to my s...

Hi, i'm looking for a case for this motherboard . My plan is to use PicoPSU for powering. Dimensions are not an issue for me (even full ATX is ok). The most critical aspect for me is having good passive cooling without fans. The candidates i've found are: - NZXT Vulcan ; - SilverStone ML03B ; - Ite...

Moogles wrote:This thing is just stupid. $400 worth of stupid.

Isn't the HS itself only $100~?

any specific reason you went with the fan on the bottom and not on top? also what is that monster shield on your mother board? cheers.. I went with fans at the front and bottom because the front has a sound dampened door (to block noise escaping) and the bottom is also to stop noise getting to my s...

Your mom was probably like: "Yay, a new computer!" <power on> "Nope, just Chuck Testa!". :lol: Well she didn't need a new computer, she has a Zotac MAG in her living room that I bought her some time ago. This machine she uses to produce/write music on and she said if it wasn't for the red LED she w...

Looks great, what are temps like? Also what's the foam type you used in between the CDR and HD? Thanks, the two hard drives normally run in the low 90's Fahrenheit, HD Tune shows they have never been above 109F and that was probably on the last build during summer. Using Prime 95 in torture test mo...

The R3, however, is an amazing case. It's very quiet and the stock fan controller is more than good enough, I've placed mine behind the back panel under the CD drives with a zip tie so I can pop open the back panel and raise/lower fan speeds without too much hassle. You can of course place the fan ...

Looks great, what are temps like?

Also what's the foam type you used in between the CDR and HD?